{"id":10378,"date":"2009-06-06T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2017-03-15T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:29:23","slug":"the-suckling-press-obama-sort-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2009\/06\/06\/the-suckling-press-obama-sort-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suckling Press; Obama "sort of god" – UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>


\nGraphic and more at Nice Deb\u2019s<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Evan Thomas, that bellwether of media obsequiousness, who once (accurately) predicted that the Democrat-loving press would give John Kerry \u201c10 to 15% points\u201d in his race fo the White House, has declared that President Obama is \u201csort of god\u201d<\/a>. Chris Matthews, who would suckle Obama\u2019s manboobs, if only Obama would lactate for him, can be heard saying \u201cyeah,\u201d in the background.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always told you they thought Obama a godling<\/a>. Now, they\u2019ve admitted it.<\/p>\n

Our press is not only not free, it is completely nuts; mad in its teen-fan lust, lost in the misty aphrodisiac of Obama\u2019s power.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t blame Obama for this.<\/strong> I blame an industry that has so insulated itself and is so lacking in diversity of thought or perspective that it has become an obscene parody of what the craft of journalism was meant to be. And I blame us, for allowing them to get away with it for so long that they could reach this point.<\/p>\n

In the piece below, we looked at what I called \u201cliving wallpaper\u201d<\/a>. The press is a sort of \u201cliving wallpaper,\u201d too. They\u2019re all around us and you can\u2019t escape them, not in a pub, an airport, a store; the gasbags of the press are yakking and expectorating and stealing all of our breathing air; they are full of sound and fury, indicating nothing. They serve up hours of \u201cnothing.\u201d They serve \u201cnothing.\u201d And they, the \u201cnothings\u201d of the suckling press, are completely dominant.<\/p>\n

We are dominated by \u201cnothings,\u201d who run to to do the bidding of a man who does not respect them, can\u2019t respect them, because who can respect a sycophant. Barack Obama is imperious Lady Catherine DeBurgh, and the press is the oafish, intellectually vapid, incurious Mr. Collins, bowing and agreeing, and silencing himself for the sake of her bare acceptance.<\/p>\n

The geraniums and begonias we see above, contribute more to the world than our current press.<\/p>\n

Even Vanity Fair understands<\/a> that the press is nothing to the man they love, but a bunch of useful idiots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obama will suckle them while he must. Then he will eat them. And they\u2019ll have it coming.<\/p>\n

By the way, Evan Thomas? In 2007 he said it was the press\u2019 job to bash the president<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed Driscoll <\/strong>takes a more in-depth look at the screaming teen fangirls of the Obama press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong>
\nThomas is getting plenty of exposure for his worship. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has some thoughts and full-size video<\/a>
\nNational Review:<\/strong> The line between reality and parody blurs<\/a>
\nAllahpundit:<\/strong> Notes that according to his suckling press<\/a>, basically, \u201cAll of Obama\u2019s (pbuh) flipflips are for the public good and never for political expediency<\/a>. I guess the Bush-hate really did scramble their brains.
\nDr. Sanity:<\/strong> Charts the madness<\/a>
\nConfederate Yankee:<\/strong> Aims a little lower than I did<\/a>
\nAce:<\/strong> wonders about kneeling and stuff<\/a>
\nArchbishop Chaput: Warns of the spirit of adulation<\/a> surrounding Obama.
\nPowerline:<\/strong> Mock Thomas\u2019 image of Obama \u201cstanding above the world\u201d<\/a>. Yeah. Worship me, pigs! Biden, peel me a grape!
\nGordon Brown (Obama\u2019s poodle):<\/strong> Remember in Leo Rosten\u2019s Captain Newman, MD<\/em>, the inmates of the asylum referred to it as \u201cPsycho Beach\u201d? Well\u2026maybe.<\/a>.
\nBarack\u2019s Teleprompter:<\/strong> Tweets, whadda they mean, \u201csorta\u201d<\/a>
\nMsPlaced Democrat:<\/strong> The Death of Journalism<\/a>; they killed themselves while admitting they didn\u2019t know him.
\nBo:<\/strong> Even the poor dog is subject to their insanity<\/a>
\nSatire?:<\/strong> Well, yes, this time<\/a>.
\nSphinx:<\/strong> Recent image<\/a> (via<\/a>)
\nThe Vatican Press:<\/strong> gets pulled back from the brink<\/a>! (H\/T New Advent<\/a>)
\nAmerican Catholic:<\/strong> Obama the Hero of Normandy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graphic and more at Nice Deb\u2019s Evan Thomas, that bellwether of media obsequiousness, who once (accurately) predicted that the Democrat-loving press would give John Kerry \u201c10 to 15% points\u201d in his race fo the White House, has declared that President Obama is \u201csort of god\u201d. Chris Matthews, who would suckle Obama\u2019s manboobs, if only Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,83,189,251,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remaking-america","category-barack-obama","category-election-2008","category-obama-good","category-the-fourth-estate","category-the-perpetual-adolescents"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Suckling Press; Obama "sort of god" - UPDATED<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Graphic and more at Nice Deb's Evan Thomas, that bellwether of media obsequiousness, who once (accurately) predicted that the Democrat-loving press would\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2009\/06\/06\/the-suckling-press-obama-sort-of-god\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Suckling Press; 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